pre·ten·tious
/priˈtenCHəs/
adjective
adjective: pretentious
attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.
I nominate - Edulis
Fuck me, this place is just off the scale.
I had read good reviews of the place in the Globe and Mail. and had been hoping to try it out for quite some time. But every time I called, it was always one problem or another with them. Anything from being on vacation (for a month) to fully booked ("sniff, don't you know who we are, sniff, you have to book 6 weeks out, sniff").
Finally, the stars aligned and I got a reservation, (after she hemmed and hawed on the phone about 2 weeks not being enough notice), and (sniff) "I need the table back by 8:45 (no problem as I'm not one who enjoys a 4 hour dinner anyway.)
The comes the meal and the off the richter scale impatient waiter.
(And reminded that they need the table back by 8:45, (fine, it's your job to ensure that the meal moves along accordingly.)
sniff
Here's the best part.
The food was OK. Not great, just OK. I've had far better with a lot less attitude. The place is nothing to write home about from a menu point of view (2 versions of a tasting menu) and desert totally was terrible.
AND, sniff, they don't serve coca cola, sniff. (How positively boorish of me to ask.)
I'm getting tired of pretentious attitude in Toronto restaurants.
/priˈtenCHəs/
adjective
adjective: pretentious
attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.
I nominate - Edulis
Fuck me, this place is just off the scale.
I had read good reviews of the place in the Globe and Mail. and had been hoping to try it out for quite some time. But every time I called, it was always one problem or another with them. Anything from being on vacation (for a month) to fully booked ("sniff, don't you know who we are, sniff, you have to book 6 weeks out, sniff").
Finally, the stars aligned and I got a reservation, (after she hemmed and hawed on the phone about 2 weeks not being enough notice), and (sniff) "I need the table back by 8:45 (no problem as I'm not one who enjoys a 4 hour dinner anyway.)
The comes the meal and the off the richter scale impatient waiter.
(And reminded that they need the table back by 8:45, (fine, it's your job to ensure that the meal moves along accordingly.)
sniff
Here's the best part.
The food was OK. Not great, just OK. I've had far better with a lot less attitude. The place is nothing to write home about from a menu point of view (2 versions of a tasting menu) and desert totally was terrible.
AND, sniff, they don't serve coca cola, sniff. (How positively boorish of me to ask.)
I'm getting tired of pretentious attitude in Toronto restaurants.